[Rarebooks] fa: 1765 Gentleman's Magazine: AMERICA & THE STAMP ACT + LONGITUDE + PSALMANAZAR &c.

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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XXXV [35]. For the Year MDCCLXV [1765]. London: Printed for D. Henry at St. John's Gate, [1765]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo (21.5 cm) in early calf-backed marbled boards; [4] + 617 + [19] pp.; with 16 copper-engraved plates and maps, nine of which are folding.

With numerous articles on the AMERICAN COLONIES in general and the STAMP ACT in particular:
	- Proceedings of the Americans on the commencement of the Stamp Act.
	- Grievances of the American Colonies.
	- The Right of Taxing the Americans considered.
	- The Claims of the Americans impartially represented.
	- The Speech of Governor Bernard, in the General Assembly of the Province of Massachussetts Bay, in New-England,… on the Subject of the Stamp Act.
	- The Importance of the North American Colonies considered.
	- General Gage's Account of the Reduction of the Indians.
	- Adventure of a young English Officer among the Abenakee [Abenaki] Savages, during the last war in America.
	- Governor Johnstone's Account of West-Florida [with] A different Account of that Province, in a Letter from a Gentleman at Pensacola.
	- Inconvenience attending the present Method of importing American Deals [with] a Remedy proposed.
	- Account of the Number of Acres in Maryland.
	- An American Expedient to prevent Poverty.
	- Etc., etc.

Other features of note include:
	- LONGITUDE. Several articles, including: The Claim to the Discovery of Longitude ill-founded [disputing the claims of John Harrison]; A Narrative of the Proceedings relative to the Discovery of the Longitude by Mr. Harrison's Time keeper, subsequent to those published in 1764; Proceedings of the Commissioners for Discovery of the Longitude, with respect to Mr. Harrison's Watch; etc. ["In 1714, the British government offered a prize of £20,000 to anyone who could invent a clock capable of keeping accurate time at sea. In 1730, John Harrison, a Yorkshire carpenter, submitted his first sea chronometer, and over the years he greatly improved the design and stability of his timepieces. In 1759, he produced a chronometer that was accurate to one-tenth of a second per day. This won him the prize, although it took the Government some years to pay him in full…" ("The Gentleman's Magazine: the 18th-Century Answer to Google"; Special Collections, University of Otago Library, New Zealand, 2012)].
	- VAUXHALL GARDENS: a folding plate and a lengthy description of the fabled London pleasure garden.
	- BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE: A particular and authentic Account of the Escape of Charles Edward Stuart, commonly called the Young Chevalier, after the Battle of Culloden (11 pp.).
	- GEORGE PSALMANAZAR: two separate articles on the fraudulent Formosan.
	- LIBEL LAWS: On Libels, Warrants, and the seizure of Papers (7 pp.).
	- Account of Professor LINNAEUS'S Systema Naturae.
	- Account of the Oleum Palmae Christi, or CASTOR-OIL (accompanied by a plate depicting "The Palma Christi, or Ricinus Americanus, commonly call'd the Castor Plant").
	- An authentic Narrative of the DUEL between Lord Byron and Wm. Chaworth, Esq., in which Mr. Chaworth was run through the Body, and died the next Day.
	- Account of the MUMMY inspected at London, 1763, by Dr. Wollaston, Dr. Blanshard, Dr. Hunter, Dr. Petit, the Rev. Mr. Egerton Leigh, and Mr. Hunter.
	- Mr. [Samuel] Johnson's Account of Shakespear's Plays.
	- Strange Stratagem of an amorous Friar.
	- OTHER PLATES include: A new invented Pump-bucket, or Piston (folding); Wheel of a Barometer; Chapel of Dionisius, Leicestershire; View of Windsor Castle; View of Cumberland Lodge, Berkshire (folding); Plan of the great Fire in and near Cornhill, London, November 7, 1765; five (of six) folding Maps of Roads from London to Chester, Dover, Portsmouth, etc. (lacking the Road to Land's End); Centrifugal Engine for extracting Water from Ships, by Erskine (folding); etc.
	- Plus monthly Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Reviews and Extracts of Books recently published, Bills of Mortality, Obituaries, lists of Bankrupts and Promotions; and much more.